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A busy day. Many problems. Clean your mind with something interesting to listen to. Unknown or forgotten moments of history. Odd mathematical problems and solutions. Some general knowledge. And even the crumbs of your bad day will disappear.

Riaz Mohammed was born into a Muslim family in Pakistan. While a boy in the village of Gujarat, he witnessed a young boy chasing cattle into a fast-flowing stream. The boy was pulled from the water, but there was nothing that could be done for him, and he died. It was then that the author decided to be a doctor, so he could help people.

Baba is a farmer and a father of five sons who sang the song each morning before going into the field to work. Baba taught each of his sons that when you rise each morning, give thanks and sing this song.

This Doctor Is Weird is a collection of personal essays that lead others through a physician’s childhood experiences while imparting valuable lessons that will help anyone forge through challenges and create a path to success.

Follow this special kitten on his adventures. He takes you through some very important, life-changing issues and compares them to your day-to-day life. He describes in detail the process before he has an operation and why it's important in the cat world to scent your territory.

We all have firsts in life - first birthday, first day at school, first friends, first love, and a lot more firsts. Pickles, a cat, shares all these journeys with you. In this story, he discovers his first Christmas, his first snow, his first time in the garden, his first friendship, and the outside world.

Join Pickles as he shares his life with you. Feel his feelings, share his love, and be part of his journey. He learns, he trains, he makes mistakes, and finally he becomes an assistance cat. It's a long and emotional road.

The great thing about a long life like Barry Magers' is that there is plenty about which to write. A 1940 war baby met his father only after losing his mother at the end of the war. His unique perspective on the quirks, tragedies, and mundanities of life kept him going through the hard times.

This poetry is all about love, music, journeys, stories, and documentaries. It even contains some translations from Swedish originals, which probably have never been translated before. There are some biographical ingredients as well, mainly about composers and a lot of philosophy, but love is the main theme throughout.

George Aylwin Hogg was a man of remarkable dedication and honor. Though he died in 1945 at the age of 30, Aylwin's name and legacy is remembered in China to this day - where as a wise and noble friend to the people of China, he immersed himself in the culture and life of the Chinese people whom he served in his mission. In Blades of Grass: The Story of George Aylwin Hogg, author and nephew of the late Mr Hogg, Mark Aylwin Thomas, explores his uncle's own letters and writings and shares this astonishing life story of perseverance, service, and dedication.

The inspiration for this novel, I believe, has come from the never-ending interest in our kangaroos and saltwater crocodiles from people near and far. These two appear to attract more interest than most of our other animals.

In New-Dimensional Thought Technology, author Rossco presents a system that makes it possible to fundamentally alter human living, thereby revealing the origin of the true self and the essence of the problem. It's about making a transformational change that is akin to being reborn within our own lifetimes.

We all have dreams when we are sleeping. Some we cannot remember; others we can. Some are humorous; some are sad. Some dreams can be frightening. I wonder though, how many of us have dreams that come true? This is a very difficult question to answer. Dulk travels down the road of dreams and finds out if his dreams come true, how they might affect his life and his beliefs, and how they might help him contribute to helping solve problems and difficulties of his friends as well has humankind and the world. Join Dulk on his adventures through dreamland.

A great pumpkin grew on our allotment. It was grown for our grandchildren to take to school on Halloween. No human wanted it, and it ended up back in the compost bin. But many creatures living on the allotment did want it, especially the Easies.

Philip's remarkable career in law in London led to recommendations from which he gained unprecedented access to leading lights in politics and the trade unions. He warns about the many pitfalls that trap the unwary, even what happened to a High Court judge! He recounts many fascinating events, beginning with a landmark case while articled, all the way through acting for such colourful clients as impresarios, actors, airline captains, and members of both houses of Parliament, to ultimately being chosen out of thousands of solicitors by the Prime Minister himself for his Party's prestigious new London headquarters.

This little book for children, written in rhyme, is the story of a little red dragon whose brothers and sisters are all bigger and better than him. But, in the end, he becomes the most famous red dragon the world has ever known!

An American-born boy grew up in a small village on the Greek island of Crete. In his last year in high school, he witnessed the German invasion of the island in May of 1941 during the early days of WWII. At the age of 18, he joined a resistance group headed by his brother and supplied crucial information to the SOE, an arm of the English Intelligence Service. This resistance group is uncovered, resulting in their hasty evacuation by the SOE to Cairo, Egypt.

Although many accounts have been written about Patrick Leigh Fermor, the great travel writer, prose poet, adventurer and Renaissance man, few are more deeply personal and direct than this narrative by Helias Doundoulakis, author of I Was Trained to Be a Spy and Trained to be an OSS Spy. Listen to this compelling account, and get to know two very remarkable figures and the heroes that supported the cause of freedom.

A former OSS spy looks back to his training in one of the key intelligence agencies in WWII, his experience in espionage, and his remarkable metamorphosis from boy to man, man to soldier, and soldier to spy. This is the story of Helias Doundoulakis, who became a spy for the Office of Strategic Services during WWII. Rescued by the SOE's Patrick Leigh Fermor, he escaped to Egypt and joined the American army and the OSS.

Adam Reynolds is an impoverished teen raised by neglectful parents in one of London's most dangerous boroughs. He turns to his love of music and countless girls to escape his sad reality. Beautiful and naïve Ellie Palmer comes from a well-off family that suddenly finds themselves living in one of the poorest neighborhoods in London. When Adam prevents Ellie from becoming the victim of a horrific sexual assault, they discover something that two teenagers never thought they would find in such a depressing place.